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Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2014 BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Nunavut has the highest hospitalization rates for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) worldwide, with rates of 166 per 1000 live births per year
Anna Banerji +11 more
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Consumer Perceptions of Food Deterioration: White Mushrooms as a Case Study
Journal of Food Science, Volume 91, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Food waste reduction is a key strategy for promoting sustainability. Nevertheless, drivers for food waste at the consumer level remain unclear. Thus, this study aimed to (1) identify spoilage cues that drive consumer decisions to discard food; (2) map differences in consumer perceptions when evaluating spoilage in general or targeted to a ...
Angie Homez‐Jara +5 more
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Mammal Distribution in Nunavut: Inuit Harvest Data and COSEWIC's Species at Risk Assessment Process
Ecology and Society, 2012 The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assesses risk potential for a species by evaluating the best available information from all knowledge sources including Aboriginal traditional knowledge (ATK).
Karen A. Kowalchuk, Richard G. Kuhn
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Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Processes Jointly Explain Mesopredator Movement and Foraging Ecology
Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2026.This study integrates top‐down (polar bear habitat selection) and bottom‐up (fish distribution) processes to test how mesopredators (ringed seals) balance risk–reward tradeoffs in habitat selection. Ringed seals reduced their space use and foraging time in response to predation risk, yet accepted higher risk when prey diversity was elevated ...
Katie R. N. Florko +7 more
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The Arctic—While the Ice is Melting: On Driftwood and Other Transnational Exhibition Stories
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT The exhibition The Arctic—While the Ice is Melting opened at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm in 2019 and is still on show, describing life in a changing climate and allowing its visitors to encounter several voices and perspectives of the past, present, and future. The three‐year preparation for the exhibition involved collaboration between the
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius, Jon Johansson
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Public Health Nursing, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 330-345, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Objective Climate change is contributing to increasing rates of vector‐borne diseases, affecting global population health. As the largest group of regulated health professionals, nurses play an integral role in climate‐related health challenges.
Shannon Y. Vandenberg +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background High rates of food insecurity are documented among Inuit households in Canada; however, data on food insecurity prevalence and seasonality for Inuit households with children are lacking, especially in city centres.
Catherine Huet +6 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Northern ecosystems are currently experiencing unprecedented ecological change, largely driven by a rapidly changing climate. Pathogen range expansion, and emergence and altered patterns of infectious disease, are increasingly reported in wildlife at ...
Taya L. Forde +18 more
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Nunavut: Building Nursing Capacity
Nursing Leadership, 2012 Recruitment and retention issues associated with the growing nursing shortage in Canada are magnified in Nunavut, where the scope of nursing practice is much broader than in urban settings. The Qikiqtani General Hospital (QGH), a 35-bed hospital in Nunavut's capital, Iqaluit, was the home base for this multi-pronged pilot project that spanned 16 months
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IJCH – COVID-19 in the Arctic: special issue
International Journal of Circumpolar HealthThe Circumpolar region, comprising the Arctic territories encircling the North Pole, is home to diverse Indigenous cultures facing unique socio-economic challenges.
Gwen Healey Akearok
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